[IO Islamic 407] ديوان سلمان

Dîwân-i-Salmân.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1240 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 407 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1240

The same.

This splendid copy contains:

Ḳaṣîdas and tarkîbbands, on fol. 2b, beginning:

هر دل كه در هواى الخ.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 127b, beginning: اگر حسن تو الخ.

Tarjî’ât, on fol. 203b, beginning:

با مريدان كوى خمّاريم – سر بمسجد فرو نمى آريم

Marâthî, on fol. 207b, beginning: پس از عزم آهو گرفتن الخ.

Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 217a, beginning:

حبّذا صدر صفّۀ كه بهست – بهمه پاى از بهشت برين

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 241b, beginning: اى كار گذاران درت شمس و زحل الخ.

Fards, on fol. 254b, beginning: خدايرا بطلب هركجا كه مى باشى الخ

No date.

No. 407, margin-column, ff. 1-261b, ll. 44; small, but clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated headings at the beginning of each poem, and other ornaments throughout.